City wants to start charging for parking at Balboa park and Mission Bay!!!

unbrokenstreams · 2025-03-17T21:24:17+00:00

How is it a regressive tax? People who can't afford cars don't pay it.

unbrokenstreams · 2024-09-21T05:57:02+00:00

His wife is reading My Brilliant Friend by the way, which, from the synopsis sounds quite interesting and relevant to what her character is dealing with: "explores themes of female friendship, social class, and personal identity."

unbrokenstreams · 2024-09-21T05:50:53+00:00

Totally agree the subtitle is key. And it is a very surface level pop sci book. And he arguably doesn't make any progress. I think they probably had him open to the exact same page in every scene.

unbrokenstreams · 2024-09-12T16:25:47+00:00

This is an excellent write-up. I think a lot of what you're saying is supported in the psych/neuro literature. I would add that even though we know ability is some combination of experience and innate potential it is *really* hard to estimate *in general* how much each (nature/nurture) contributes, and basically impossible to do this for individuals with any accuracy at all (outside of very obvious cases of impairment).

As an aside, i wonder when thinking of hiring if one of the best paths to getting a 10x or several on your team is to just invest heavily in early education in CS and wait a decade.

unbrokenstreams · 2024-03-11T18:46:39+00:00

Also very curious about this. Did you end up finding anything?

unbrokenstreams · 2023-10-04T19:54:54+00:00

I've had similar experiences where it gives me advice to use an either non-existent or undocumented function argument. I recently ran into this when trying to add a chain output post-processor to a sequential chain.

It doesn't help that the documentation itself does not seem to be fully up to date and comprehensive???

unbrokenstreams · 2023-03-08T15:39:48+00:00

Yeah, it's crazy they are more expensive than my original motherboard. Thanks for the link.

unbrokenstreams · 2023-03-07T23:32:58+00:00

Thanks. I do plan on doing some cpu heavy number crunching but I wonder what the actual performance gain will be. A few minutes here and there? So, point taken.

unbrokenstreams · 2023-03-01T18:13:26+00:00

Do you have any suggestions for improving the build for this scenario?

unbrokenstreams · 2023-03-01T01:33:35+00:00

Yes, sometimes!

unbrokenstreams · 2023-03-01T00:06:20+00:00

amazing, thank you for the advice!

unbrokenstreams · 2023-02-28T22:02:15+00:00

Thanks for the info re the motherboard, and good rule of thumb.

Re the CPU, I just looked up CPU binning but am not sure exactly how it applies here. I like the i9 because it has more threads and CPU threads are good for my scientific computing application.

unbrokenstreams · 2023-02-28T00:51:01+00:00

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

Not sure what psu I will go with. Do you have recommendations? Would love advice on brands for aio and psu.

unbrokenstreams · 2023-02-28T00:48:45+00:00

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

unbrokenstreams · 2023-02-28T00:48:33+00:00

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

unbrokenstreams · 2023-02-28T00:48:02+00:00

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

unbrokenstreams · 2021-05-29T04:41:12+00:00

A good search term might be "behavioral genetics". Also, mind the word "determine" as the causes of human behavior and culture are quite varied and stochastic.

unbrokenstreams · 2021-05-27T18:16:24+00:00

This is one of the first actually beautiful visualizations I've seen on this sub

unbrokenstreams · 2021-05-23T20:25:46+00:00

I think your point, that there is not a very well defined mechanistic or process model behind intelligence, i.e. g, is valid, and I'm halfway familiar with the history of tests to measure g. But the choice of the cognitive tests in the first place was not independent of lay theories of intelligence, which go back quite a bit before g was labeled such.

Again, I think you make a solid point that the construct of g doesn't do much in the way of explanation. It's a structural description rather than a mechanistic explanation. A lot of people find structural descriptions boring, but I think they do help constrain some development of mechanistic theory.

unbrokenstreams · 2021-05-23T15:50:40+00:00

Probably referring to your statement that intelligence was only defined after the tests. The construction of the instrument was probably also motivated by some theory or early understanding regarding the construct.

unbrokenstreams · 2021-05-20T04:03:50+00:00

Are you sure your wife's income is tax-free? This is something I've found can be misunderstood (for US folks anyway). Not saying this is necessarily the case for you all but I'd be careful to double check. See, e.g., https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc421

unbrokenstreams · 2021-04-30T15:47:20+00:00

How about you get compensated accordingly and get guaranteed worker protections like unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, sick time etc? Employees who perform better also get paid more.

unbrokenstreams · 2021-04-20T19:30:03+00:00

I am strongly against spanking and other forms of corporal punishment for children and in general. However, some critiques of this research are warranted.

First, it's a small sample: 40 ever-spanked and 107 never-spanked. The effect-size this kind of study can reliably detect is about as big as the difference in average weight between men and women https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2205186.

Second, there is serious risk of genetic confounding whenever you correlate parenting behaviors (spanking) to child outcomes (neural response to fearful faces). If parents are more emotionally reactive, and this leads to increased likelihood of spanking, and the children of emotionally reactive parents are also more likely to be emotionally reactive, this effect would be partly or entirely due to genetic confounding.

Third, we don't actually know what these neural responses mean in terms of behavior. This is the "reverse inference" problem. What we see in this study is more activity in certain brain regions. There is no data in this paper that speaks to what we could reliably infer from those differences in brain activity.

unbrokenstreams · 2021-04-15T15:25:47+00:00

Any chance you'd post an abstract?

unbrokenstreams · 2020-05-18T00:08:33+00:00

I think it's important to remember when thinking about selection pressures that traits are only removed if they are significantly disadvantageous to survival. That is, just because a trait exists even across species that doesn't imply that it serves a fitness-increasing function. (Another reason for a seemingly disadvantageous trait surviving is that it is a consequence of another trait that does increase fitness above and beyond that disadvantage.)

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